The high-level enquiry committee of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has indicted the organizers of the event for "wilful defiance" of authorities in going ahead with the event even as the administration denied permission. The committee has blamed "masked outsiders" for raising "objectionable slogans" with whom two students Mujeeb Gattoo and Mohammad Qadeer have been named for "close proximity" with outsiders.
"The organisers disobeyed instructions from the administration...they also allowed the event to be taken over by outsiders..a group with covered faces, hijacked the meet and raised extreme slogans," states the report.
The names of the students who were charged with sedition include Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhataxharya and others like Ashutosh, Rama Naga, Shweta Raj, Gargi Adhikari, ChintuKumari, Banojotsana lahri, Rubina Saifi and Anjali. All of them have been named for participating in sloganeering, but no specific slogans have been attributed to any of them.
The slogans mentioned are 'bharatki barbadi ke liye jung rahegi, Manipur maange azadi..'The slogans attributes to outsiders with "faces covered by a cloth/ scarf most of the time" were seen shouting slogans "Kashmir Ki azaadi tak jang rahegi, Bharat ko ragda, go India go back".
The report has details on February 09 event on Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in a chronological order mentioning the administrations involvement in denying permission and then students going ahead with the gathering at Sabarmati grounds and the swarming of crowd with "anti-national" sloganeering.
